Anarchism and the Avant-Garde (Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 38)

"Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s 1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe"--Page 4 of cover. Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics 1 The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de Siècle France 2 Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde 3 A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism 4 Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy Part 2: Fractions: Declining - Pioneering - Redeeming 5 Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics 6 'We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood': Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism 7 'Theocratic Anarchism'? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde Part 3: Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings 8 Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration 9 Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art 10 Teaching Revolution through Art? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited Index "Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s 1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe"--Back cover